It happens every time I argue with a liberal, I’ll eventually hear the old tried and moronic statement that conservatives are in bed with Wall Street and the rapacious special interests of large corporations, who have bought and paid for us all to advocate for their continued effort to destroy humanity and get richer due to their ability to place themselves on the backs of the little guy. Life in general, and wealth in particular will be described as a zero sum thing, and the jaw droppingly stupid theory of how large corporations could only have ever become successful by stealing every penny on the asset side of their T Accounts through some sort of morally reprehensible behavior, such as stealing those assets from the 99%.
Enjoy this long forgotten campaign advert, direct from Team Zero, which blames Mitt Romney for giving some poor guy’s wife cancer because of the malicious way in which he ran his venture capital business, Bain Capital Management, with the crazy idea of actually turning a profit.
Just a little back story here on this Obama for President Advert which accused Mitt Romney of killing some poor steel worker’s wife might be in order here. First, Joe Soptic was in fact no ordinary Steel Worker. He was one of the union thugs who actually bore more of the responsibility than Mitt Romney did for the closure of that Missouri Steel Mill. Bain, under the direction of Romney was asked to buy that already declared bankrupt company, GST Steel of Kansas City, in order to keep it from going under completely. It was the Union who originally sought the help of Bain Capital Management. In 2001, long after Mitt Romney had left Bain in order to pursue a political career, Jeff Zients, Bain’s new leader, decided that Bain could not live with the outrageous demands of Joe Soptic and the USW, who by the way were not willing to even negotiate. Bain closed the doors on GST, and deservedly so. Soptic’s wife had health insurance through her own employer at the time, and gave that up upon her own retirement in 2004. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. So while it is tragic that this man’s wife died, and I can not understand his pain truly, I do know that it was not the rapacious heel of capitalism that killed her, and do believe that her memory is not being honored by having her death pimped out by her husband for ideological reasons.
Now with the back story in mind, guess who’s coming to a State Dinner at the White House. Even as the GOP was tied to the evil doers in Wall Street, called out as champions of all things opulent, threatened with pitch forks and torches, the Obama Administration resembled the who’s who page of former Goldman Sachs executives. The Clinton Administration resembled the who’s who page of future Goldman Sachs executives. In election after election, Democrats receive the lion’s share of Wall Street donations, and right after they are called evil and greedy by the Marxists who have taken over the Democrat Party for an entire election season, they are very quietly put in charge of writing the regulations that hatred for them convinced a pretty dim nation to pass, ostensibly for the purpose of putting an end to their shenanigans.
Miraculously, those regulations never seem to do what we are told they’ll do, but instead only seem to make smaller competitors disappear, and bolster their power base and make them too big to be allowed to fail. If there were one sentence from the Daily Caller article that I believe should be emblazoned deep in the psyche of every American’s mind, and should be referred to during every election for the next 50 years, this one would be it.
But Zients has stellar credentials as a progressive believer in the ability of government and corporate experts to manage Americans’ economy.
It is not the gripe of Liberals that we most often disagree with, but their proposed solutions that has us vexed. Yes, large corporations being granted special favors by government, thereby corrupting the free market system that has served us so well for the entirety of our nation’s history is a problem. I would argue that allowing the brain trust at Goldman Sachs to write the rules to the Dodd/Frank Law thus eliminating all competition in the financial services industry, while simultaneously enshrining themselves permanently as part of the power base that rules our nation, is part of the very same problem. I do not believe that the solution is that we should vote the government even greater power to rule over us, and increase its opportunity to grant greater lordship ability to those same corrupt crony capitalists. If you want to bring a business man down, send another business man after him. It is the centralized power that is the problem. Further increasing that centralization of authority will not solve anything, but will make things worse.
Take a good look at the picture at the top, because in three years time when Hillary is running for President as the Democrat Nominee, she’ll be in that picture, and all four or them will be screaming to the masses about how Wall Street is evil, rich people want to rape the nation, and how Conservatives are paid advocates for special interests, and how we should all grab pitch forks and torches and run people like Jeff Zients out of town after forcing them to wear tar and feathers as a fashion statement.
